Project Glass Augmented-Reality Specs Spotted on Larry Page's Face

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Project Glass Augmented-Reality Specs Spotted on Larry Page's Face

Larry Page presents with Project Glass. Photo: Jason Mayes

Google seems determined to outfit all of its top brass with Project Glass augmented-reality glasses. In April, co-founder Sergey Brin was spotted at a party in San Francisco sporting the glasses, and now it looks like CEO Larry Page just made his first public appearance wearing the Project Glass headset – well, the first appearance that's been photographed and shared on the internet.

Google's other co-founder was photographed wearing the glasses at Google's Zeitgeist event in the United Kingdom. The shots were taken by Google employee Jason Mayes, who posted the images on a personal blog, but has since removed the photos.

Unfortunately, no one has been able to convince the Google top brass to let others wear the glasses. As a result, no one outside the company is quite sure what the U.I. looks like. What we do know is that the glasses don't recreate the graphical-overlay UI shown in the original Project Glass demo video.

Recent patent filings point to the headset being controlled by a wearable IR identifier that's tracked by an IR camera on the glasses. According to the patent, gestures would be used to launch apps and navigate the UI.

So do all of Google's major players have their own pair, or is there some sort of sign-out sheet for the prototype glasses? Gadget Lab wants to know.